The World Cup Requires A World Supply Of Condoms

With every major sporting event comes the inevitable story of how an influx of prostitutes and sex workers stream into the host location. Here, look, they’re already talking about it for next year’s Super Bowl in Dallas. Further hand-wringing will no doubt come on that issue.Right now, such concerns center on the World Cup in South Africa, where the country’s Drug Central Authority has stated that it expects 40,000 sex workers to be illegally offering their services over the next month, prompting further worries about the spread of sexually transmitted disease.

South African President Jacob Zuma has requested that his country have a billion condoms available, with FIFA saying it will have them at the ready. England pitched in by providing 42 million of them. But even that may not be enough. At least a few of the teams are doing their part to not use them all up.

⇥“It would be fantastic if before every soccer game, the team captain stood up and said we believe in safe sex, consensual sex, and the dignity of every woman and child,” says Bonita Meyersfeld of the Gender Unit at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Witswaterand University.If by fantastic, you mean incredibly awkward and ultimately ineffective, then yes, fantastic.

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